NARDOTTO , Sonia

The automatic and computerized recognition of Regions of Interest (ROI) is a crucial step in the process and analysis of medical images. The reasons are many and include the increase of available medical image data, the wide variety of devices and methods for image acquisition and the need to provide mechanisms making the analysis more accurate...

This work aims to achieve an automatic and optimal graph cut phase based on a segmentation method presented in a previous paper. A graph-based segmentation algorithm, starting from a seed point belonging to the region of interest (ROI), is able to find the Minimum Path Spanning Tree (MPST) by using a new cost function and an optimal aggregation...

In the context of rheumatic diseases, several studies suggest that Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) allows the detection of the three main signs of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) at higher sensitivities than available through conventional radiology. The rapid, accurate segmentation of bones is an essential preliminary step for quantitative...

The collection of data for therapeutic purposes when using Serious Games in a home environment is essential to help therapists and medical doctors deliver better therapy. It is necessary to use different sensors for collecting such data. This requires using standards as HL71 as much as possible to provide a general purpose approach. On the...